 This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Labor supports DC Black Lives Matter protests; “Debs In Canton” preview; Revisiting The Battle of Homestead; Voices of exiled Iranian workers.
Last week’s show: Minneapolis general strike; “Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property” Thanks to an army of thousands of Chinese and Irish immigrants, who laid 2,000 miles of track, the nation’s first transcontinental railway line was finished by the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines at Promontory Point, Utah – 1869 U.S. & Canadian workers form Western Labor Union. It favors industrial organization and independent labor party politics - 1898 A federal bankruptcy judge frees United Airlines from responsibility for pensions covering 120,000 employees - 2005 - David Prosten Comments are closed.
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